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  2. Paradoxa Stoicorum - Wikipedia

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    The Paradoxa Stoicorum (English: Stoic Paradoxes) is a work by the academic skeptic philosopher Cicero in which he attempts to explain six famous Stoic sayings that appear to go against common understanding: (1) virtue is the sole good; (2) virtue is the sole requisite for happiness; (3) all good deeds are equally virtuous and all bad deeds equally vicious; (4) all fools are mad; (5) only the ...

  3. Cardinal virtues - Wikipedia

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    Suggestions of the Stoic virtues can be found in fragments in the Diogenes Laertius and Stobaeus. The Platonist view of the four cardinal virtues is described in Definitions. Practical wisdom or prudence (phrónēsis) is the perspicacity necessary to conduct personal business and affairs of state. It encompasses the skill to distinguish the ...

  4. Stoicism - Wikipedia

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    The revival of Stoicism in the 20th century can be traced to the publication of Problems in Stoicism [60] [61] by A. A. Long in 1971, and also as part of the late 20th-century surge of interest in virtue ethics. Contemporary Stoicism draws from the late 20th- and early 21st-century spike in publications of scholarly works on ancient Stoicism.

  5. Glossary of Stoicism terms - Wikipedia

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    δικαιοσύνε: justice, "consonant with the law and instrumental to a sense of duty" (Diogenes Laertius 7.98). One of the four virtues (justice, courage, temperance, wisdom/prudence). dogma δόγμα: principle established by reason and experience. doxa δόξα: belief, opinion.

  6. Stoic ethics - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: Stoicism#Ethics and virtues ...

  7. Sophrosyne - Wikipedia

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    For the Stoic, Zeno of Citium, sophrosyne is one of the four chief virtues. [13] Later Stoics like Musonius Rufus, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius took a practical view of sophrosyne and share a definition of it as the restraint of the appetites. [4]: 228–29 Demophilus, a Pythagorean philosopher of uncertain date, wrote: [14]

  8. Virtue ethics - Wikipedia

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    Some modern versions of virtue ethics do not define virtues in terms of well being or flourishing, and some go so far as to define virtues as traits that tend to promote some other good that is defined independently of the virtues, thereby subsuming virtue ethics under (or somehow merging it with) consequentialist ethics.

  9. On Passions - Wikipedia

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    On Passions consisted of four books; of which the first three discussed the Stoic theory of emotions and the fourth book discussed therapy and had a separate title—Therapeutics. Most surviving quotations come from Books 1 and 4, although Galen also provides an account of Book 2 drawn from the 1st-century BCE Stoic philosopher Posidonius ...